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Massive protest in Hungary

Ten of thousands of people demonstrated against Hungarian government’s policies in Budapest on Sunday 23rd October (the 55th anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary) under the banner ‘I don’t like the regime’. The rally was organised by the ‘One Million for...

More from Greece as journalists take action

Below is a statement from the executive board of the Journalists’ union of Athens daily newspapers (the union in Thrace and Macedonia follows the same line). Industrial actions are foreseen as follows: 1.   Thursday 29 September, 6 hours stoppage from 17:00 to...

Greece – more pain but who gains?

Earlier this week at the meeting of the European Federation of Journalists steering committee in Brussels, we were updated by the delegate from the Greek journalists’ union on the impact of the severe austerity measures on journalists and other media workers. Salaries...

Norway gunman targeted journalists in manifesto

It is likely that Norway will never be the same after the bombing and murders in Oslo and on Utoya Island, where many people, mostly teenagers and in their 20s were attending the Labour party’s annual youth summer school.  Writing in Sunday’s Observer (24 July 2011),...

Lobbyists in Arms

The postponement of Saturday’s  meeting of the NUJ Continental European Council (made up of branches in Paris, Brussels and the Netherlands) allowed me to attend a guided tour about the arms industry lobby in Brussels, organised by the Corporate Europe Observatory...

The unacceptable state of Serbian journalism

The opening of the EFJ annual meeting in Belgrade on 15 June was an important occasion for Serbian journalists. Present, with security personnel in attendance and a host of national and local media, was Boris Tadic President of the Republic of Serbia. He first assumed...